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Dictionaries will tell you that it is the agreement of our notions with the reality of things, but that is hardly an answer, for what is the reality of things? Who can arrive at it? Ten people may witness some occurrence a fire, an accident, what you will and yet, if questioned, not more than two at most will give the same account of the happening.
The telephone bell rang and she went off to answer it. Tenney, as if with a hopeful conviction that another man would understand, turned his eyes upon Raven. "What's anybody want to talk like that for?" he questioned irrepressibly. "It's the way you talk yourself," said Raven. "That's precisely what you said last night." "It's no kind of a way " Tenney began, and then pulled himself up.
And thus, interested as he was by Doctor Bonamy's explanations, and desirous of forming an opinion, he would have spoken out and questioned, had it not been for his cloth which condemned him to remain in the background.
A great lawyer, whom I questioned lately as to this matter, told me that his cure was a chapter or two of a novel, with a cold bath before going to bed; for, said he, quaintly, "You never take out of a cold bath the thoughts you take into it." It would be easy to multiply such examples.
It was all bound to end in a head being cut off; one was wanted. . . . Ah! just listen, they are talking of it." This was true. As the three functionaries of the law drew near to pay their respects to the all-powerful Minister, they were questioned by lady friends whose curiosity had been roused by what they had read in the newspapers.
But Emily Fox-Seton was glad too that Sir Bruce was young, that they were all young, and that happiness had come before they had had time to tire of waiting for it. She was so happy herself that she questioned nothing. "Yes. It is nice," she answered, and glowed with honest sympathy. "You will want to do the same things. It is so agreeable when people who are married like to do the same things.
"You don't say so? Thank you ever so much. Did they say where they were stopping?" he questioned eagerly. The woman shook her head. "But they must be near here?" "Maybe they are and maybe they ain't." The farmer's wife did not know exactly where the girls were, so she had told him no untruth. "Haven't you seen their boat?" "Not since the other day." "That is queer.
I thought of you down here in your garden, and well, I don't know, Bina. I showed that note to my wife, and she said, 'Bina must be a dear." Sabrina's eyes questioned him. "Yes," he said frankly. "She's a dear, too only different. It's been all right, Bina." "Ain't that good!" she whispered happily. "I'm glad."
In the great mental and moral activity of her generation she was instinctively liberal, and never questioned in others the complete soul-liberty, as Roger Williams called it, which she calmly and naturally maintained for herself.
Once, indeed, he had been questioned; but answering that he was Arrowhead, no further inquiries were made. By the passing remarks, he soon ascertained that the party was out expressly to intercept Mabel and her uncle, concerning whose rank, however, they had evidently been deceived.
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